With just one day until Code Camp, things are really coming together; at last count, we have 146 presentations and 1629 registered attendees! Registration starts at 8:00 AM Saturday morning. Parking Lot #4 is paid for by our sponsors so you do not need to pay $2.  All other parking at Foothill requires a fee. Follow the signs to the registration desk to pick-up your name badge and Saturday Lunch ticket.

A map of both the campus and the classrooms is located here http://www.foothill.edu/news/mainmaps.html Also, please remember that the beltway around Foothill College is one-way so if you pass us, keep going around the circle and come back.

We will have printed copies of the schedule, but you can help us out by printing the following PDF files, which contain the session schedules for both Saturday & Sunday to bring with you.

http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/misc/siliconvalley-codecamp-saturday.pdf
http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/misc/siliconvalley-codecamp-sunday.pdf
http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/misc/siliconvalley-codecamp-tracks.pdf

All the same information is available on the full web site at http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com.  Please remember to provide feedback after each session by visiting the Sessions Page on the web site and choosing Session Evaluation on the lower right of each session description.

See you Very Soon!

Tammy Baker
2nd Assistant Coordinator
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tammybaker

For any important announcements during camp, you can always check the camp twitter feed:

http://twitter.com/sv_code_camp

For those of you tweeting at camp, please use the #svcc hash tag on your tweets. If you do post something through any other channel about camp online, please also tag your content with the "svcc" tag. For all camp attendees, we have created a Silicon Valley Code Camp 2009 event on SlideShare that you can join here:

http://j.mp/svcc-slides

If you are speaking this weekend, please post your slides on SlideShare and associate your slides with our event. It would also be a good idea to take advantage of the wiki page associated with each session to include a link to your slides there too.

That’s All Folks,

Van Riper

http://www.google.com/profiles/van.riper

Silicon Valley Code Camp Assistant Coordinator

September 27, 2009 Contact: Peter Kellner

service@siliconvalley-codecamp.com

Summer is over, and the kids are back from camp. Now, it’s time for people looking for a career tune-up in this troubled economy to go to camp. Silicon Valley Code Camp (www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com) is a free – yes, free – weekend conference October 3 and 4, 2009, for all software developers who want to share information, network, and learn new skills.

Code Camp is a new type of all-volunteer “community event” where developers learn from fellow developers. This is the fourth year for Code Camp, and its popularity continues to grow. More than 1,200 people have registered so far, and almost 150 sessions are scheduled.

The location for this Saturday-Sunday meeting remains the same: Foothill College in Los Altos, Calif. And everything is free – from registration to coffee and lunch.

Sessions at Code Camp range from informal “chalk talks” to formal presentations, and the speakers are mixed, from experts used to sharing their knowledge to people with a unique skill they’ve never shared before. Each session lasts 60 minutes.

Many presenters put their material on the Code Camp wiki to share. All of the material is community-developed by and for fellow developers. Among the 75+ topics this year are:

Ø Cloud Computing including discussions from Microsoft, Amazon and other leading vendors

Ø Application building for Google’s Android phone

Ø Windows Mobile Development

Ø iPhone Application design

Ø Security As A Service

Ø Asynchronous Web Services

Ø How to Develop with Oracle Fusion Middleware on Amazon EC2

Ø JavaScript, The Good Parts and Town meeting

Code Camp is not a Microsoft, open source, or Java event. It is a Silicon Valley developer community event. Everyone is welcome to present as long as the material fits the Code Camp guidelines. That is, it must be about code, and it can’t be a direct advertisement for a product or service.

Peter Kellner, one of the Code Camp organizers, became an independent software consultant after founding Kellner Systems and later selling it to a big insurance company. He said, “Code Camp can help you learn a new skill, meet new people, solve a problem you may be having, or just meet up with old and new friends.”

The sponsors of Code Camp range from big companies like LinkedIn, Oracle, Google, and Microsoft to smaller firms like Falafel Software in Capitola, Calif., a computer consulting and training firm, and a big thanks goes to Foothill College, of course, for hosting the event. None of the sponsors will be pushing anything at attendees, and it is not a technology exhibition, but there will be a Platinum Sponsor display area. What makes Code Camp work is the community of developers coming together to share their knowledge and expertise.

For more information or to register for the event simply go to the website: www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com.

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Hello Code-Campers,

For those of you that don’t know me, I’m Dave Nielsen, co-founder and primary organizer of CloudCamp.  Over the past 15 months I’ve worked with regional organizers around the world to put on 43 CloudCamp unconferences for the purpose of helping developers, admins and entrepreneurs explore the emerging opportunities involving Cloud Computing technologies.  And as local here in Mountain View, I’ve participated as a presenter and volunteer at Silicon Valley Code Camp for the past 3 years. So it seemed natural to me that we might bring these two exciting events together on the same day. After discussing the idea with the SVCC crew, we decided to integrate CloudCamp within the Silicon Valley Code Camp schedule. So I am pleased to announce that CloudCamp will be hosted within Code Camp at 9:15am on Sunday.

So what happens at CloudCamp? First and foremost, CloudCamp is a real-time unconference where the audience decides what we talk about. At the end of the morning introduction "YOU" will be able to propose sessions on any topic related to Cloud Computing that you are interested in.  I always propose a session for beginners called "Intro to Cloud Computing" where I promise to answer all of your Cloud Computing questions. Of course this always a challenge, and for some answers I may ask for a little help from the audience. But it is always an entertaining and educational session. Hopefully, with a little help from you, many other sessions will be proposed, such as "What is different about a Cloud Computing app?"; and "How do I scale my data in the cloud?; and "What is Hadoop?".

The following is the agenda for CloudCamp @ Code Camp. I hope you will at least join us at 9:15am Sunday for the morning session and help make CloudCamp @ Code Camp an dynamic and educational experience.

CloudCamp Schedule: 10/4/2009 at 9:15am

#  9:15am: CloudCamp Begins
#  9:30am: Lightning Talks
# 10:00am: Organize Unconference
# 10:30am: Breakout Sessions: Round 1 – Including "Intro to Cloud Computing"
#  1:00pm: Breakout Sessions: Round 2
#  2:15pm: Breakout Sessions: Round 3
#  3:30pm: CloudCamp Wrap-up Session

Note: It is important that you attend the 9:15am Sunday session to propose a topic for this breakout sessions throughout the day.

Let me know if you have any questions and I look forward to discussing all aspects of Cloud Computing technologies with you.

Best,
Dave Nielsen
Co-founder, CloudCamp
http://www.cloudcamp.com/?page_id=1292

Oracle Brings “Oracle Fusion Middleware Track” to Camp

Oracle, one of our Platinum sponsors has put together a very interesting track on development around their Fusion Middleware Track.  The sessions in this track can be seen in detail at the following URL:

http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Sessions.aspx?track=2

Our schedule is not quite ready yet, but the plan is to have all the sessions below scheduled in way that they an attendee could go to them all.  The order also is made such that it would make sense to go to them in order.  The order will be as follows:

• Asynchronous Web Services
• Which Web App Stack is Best?
• Deep Diagnostics of Production JVMs using Oracle AD4J
• Developing Java EE Applications with Eclipse and WTP: Looking ahead to Helios
• Introduction to Oracle ADF
• Ajax Enabled JSF – Oracle ADF Faces Primer
• Security As A Service
• How to Develop with Oracle Fusion Middleware on Amazon EC2
• Top 10 Productivity Tools for Java Developers on Oracle WebLogic Server 10gR3

Hope you can make it to some or all of the sessions.  It’s great to see a company like Oracle contribute both sponsorship and gray matter to the community here.

A while back I asked speakers to send me links to blog posts about their sessions.  Below are the links they sent me.  Without further discussion, here they are.

http://blog.arungupta.me/2009/09/java-ee-6-glassfish-eclipse-dynamic-languages-web-frameworks-at-silicon-valley-code-camp-2009/

http://jamesdowney.net/blog/post/Silicon-Valley-Code-Camp.aspx

http://blog.falafel.com/2009/08/31/FalafelIsSpeakingAtSiliconValleyCodeCampOct3rdAmp4th2009.aspx

http://www.mpaolini.com/code-camp?utm_source=email&utm_medium=code-camp&utm_campaign=Speaker

http://www.mpaolini.com/code-camp?utm_source=email&utm_medium=code-camp&utm_campaign=Speaker

http://briccetti.blogspot.com/2009/05/silicon-valley-code-camp-2009-my.html

http://nameawards.com/page/2/

http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/2009/08/27/come-to-silicon-valley-code-camp-october-3rd-4th.aspx

We are just finalizing rooms at Foothill College and plan on publishing our final schedule one week from tomorrow (September 28th).  We’ve got 139 Session to schedule covering a very broad technology space.  We try very hard to keep sessions from overlapping that attendees will want to go to, but of course, with such a large overlap, we do the best we can.  Once we publish our schedule, we will invite you to come back to the session list and check the radio box under the session saying you plan on attending.  The reason the radio box is disabled now is because we want to make sure we know which sessions people plan on attending (when multiple sessions happen at the same time).  The year, at every time slot, we expect to have at least 12 sessions running concurrently.  You will only be able to attend one at each session.

This year, for the first time, we have session tracks.  The idea behind tracks is that we as the organizers work with a track lead or expert in that track to identify groups of sessions that make sense to attend (possibly in a specific order with no overlap). Then, a paragraph is written to define the track theme and a special landing page is made for that track so users can see them all together along with their schedule times.  Several people have asked what is the difference between tracks and the existing tag cloud.  The difference is that Cloud Tags are totally made up and assigned by the session presenter.  The tracks are meant to have a higher level of consistency.  Here is a URL to all our tracks:  http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Tracks.aspx

Also, all sessions are not tracked which does not reflect at all on the speaker or content.  It’s just an experiment for us this year.  We welcome the feedback to let us know how well it works.

Looking forward to a great event in just 12 days!

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SVCC needs your help.  This year’s event is bigger and better than ever and we need more helping hands to make things run smoothly.  Volunteering has so many benefits, the chance to meet and work with others like you, that feeling of goodness knowing you are contributing to an all-volunteer technology event, plus you’re invited to attend the speaker appreciation dinner on Saturday and you’ll get a cool T-shirt.  All this for just a couple hours of your time.

Please sign up on our wiki:
http://codecamp.pbworks.com/CodeCampSiliconValleyVolunteers09

If you have any questions, please email me at
volunteer@siliconvalley-codecamp.com (or simply reply to this email).

Fletcher

This past Thursday evening, my wife Tammy and I went to visit our first platinum sponsor of 2009, Falafel Software in Capitola California.  Lino Tadros, Chairman and CEO of Falafel let us use his office for normal working during the day, then we all went out for a great Sushi meal after.  Falafel provides high qualtiy software development, consulting and training.  We had the chance to see where it all happens.

Thanks for hosting!

Lino at the Falafel Office

At Gayles Deli in Capitola California (by the beach)